As far as hippies go, Joni Mitchell has got to be damn-near one of the brightest yet most ill-tempered ones. But you can’t condemn her wayward hippie beginnings too much because, back when she hit the folk scene, being a hippie was actually somewhat subversive- a far cry from the lame, washed up cliché it […]

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Canadian folk-singer Bob Wiseman opened for Feist (back on the web already?) on her European tour, and on the last night she joined him on stage for his last song, “You Don’t Love Me”, to play drums. This clip is interesting in no other way.

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An astounding performance by Sinéad O’Connor at the Pinkpop festival in 1988. It’s almost disturbing watching her teeter on the brink of a complete meltdown. She seems so innocent and small with that shaved head, as she’s swallowed up by the stage and the enormous crowd, but she belts out the song with that unmistakable […]

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Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty’s Babyshambles have collaborated on a new song. Just being in the same room with these two people at the same time would in all likelihood cause any innocent bystander to imbibe heaps of illegal substances, while indirectly catching a contact high of considerable measure. By some miracle, Winehouse, Doherty, and his bandmates were […]

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 …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is set to embark on yet another round of touring for its under-achieving, fifth long-player, So Divided, which has been on shelves the better part of a year. The band is hitting colleges with Adult Swim’s fictional metal band, Dethklok from Metalocalypse fame, whose debut record The Dethalbum […]

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My loathing of The Killers knows no bounds, but I can at least understand why Hot Fuss was a hit. If it’s dancey in a safe “alternative” cushion kind of way and it sounds even a whiff like vintage Duran Duran, people will buy it. I get it. Sam’s Town, however, is another story. An […]

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I half expected this video to be a montage of dogs catching fish in some creek, while the bearded members of Band of Horses drank beer in slow motion.

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